Category: Social Media

Palin hacker convicted

The Department of Justice announced via press release that the man who broke into Sarah Palin”s Yahoo email account was convicted. After a week-long trial, a jury found [David C.] Kernell guilty of one count of misdemeanor unauthorized access to obtain information from a computer and one count of obstruction of justice. The jury found […]

Lobbyists and non-lobbyists use Twitter: is it news?

The Sunlight Foundation’s John Wonderlich notes this weekend’s Post story on lobbyists (and non-lobbyists, it turns out) using Twitter. If there’s anything we’ve learned about people getting on twitter, though, it’s that people often disclose more than they should, rather than less. Lobbyists, PR firms, Word of Mouth marketers, celebrities — they can all use […]